Pruning Made Simple (Step-By-Step Visual Guide)

Pruning helps to shape a plant, control its size, encourage strong, vigorous growth, increase flowers and fruit, and remove dead, diseased or damaged material. Yet pruning often remains a mystery, especially to beginning gardeners. PRUNING MADE SIMPLE explains why it's important to prune and shows you -- in easy-to-follow illustrated steps -- what, when, and where to prune.

PRUNING MADE SIMPLE demystifies such techniques as heading, shearing, thinning, shaping, topiary, and pollarding and provides illustrated how-tos.